Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1866)

My Rating: 5/5

I've been fully recovered from disease inflicted on reading Yossarian's both sanity and insanity, until Raskolnikov had mysteriously tapped on my door, began pouring out his horrid revelation. Another thing to worry about from someone else's business. Again, his delirium experienced after the execution of that outrageous crime was contagious in which he persistently designated to his dear readers that it was legit idea and calling him infidel was huge slander. I've been appalled from what I have read all throughout, but somehow manage to grasp lessons from the main POV. He created balance and manipulated theory of his own that led one's mind become more justice maniac that cares so much about humanity. World is kind of messy and distorted and it badly needs healing which was quite obvious on his doings at the threshold of this book.

Raskolnikov was brilliant, self-centered, law student, living alone under dismal attic until deprivation succumbs his senses, he stopped schooling and gradually suffered from migraine from constantly contemplating on how to get rid of bad particles roaming around the city of Petersburg. He had manifesto which nobody had ever tried to do so. So bad I have neither transparent background in politics or military history. I couldn't provide extra credits on it. He had been mumbling Napoleon's name and was inspired by him. He gets pestered whenever somebody disputed against his own idea, and managed to project himself that his conscience was as pure as distilled water. He crept along the series of doom he had thought and convinced to kill belligerent beings to maintain peace and order. But an inspector challenged to unleashed his expertise in psychological process on capturing slippery culprit for whom the  latter helplessly accept this bait. He was thrown to Siberia to face punishment and apparently observed that people inside cell were becoming suffocated, emancipated,  and mistreated by the peircing criticisms outside the wall; nonetheless, they appreciated life more than people who has freedom outside.

Dearest Raskolnikov, it was foolish move, I daresay. If you want to prove theory of your own you should have slyly flown to America with your mistress and leave those mongrels behind completely muddled on your own craftsmanship and buy more time on how were you able to make a change. Unfortunately, his fate ended in the dungeon with bunch of blunders like him. "Repent," he reflected. Crushed, bitten and punished.

Strangely so, it has occurred nowadays although this book published more than a hundred years ago. Reincarnation, perhaps. An oblivious cycle for those likened minds. I can suggest an example of an "extraordinary man" he's been implying to on his written article and it would be our 16th president of the Philippines. He has the power to perform metamorphosis by seizing one's life, ignoring obloquious MSM and Human Right ranting to and fro, which is shockingly similar to Raskolnikov approach, he gets furious whenever they crossed their line. The number of people get killed on his war have reached more than thousands, that is for illicitly connected to drugs alone, and he won't stop no matter what anti admin barking at.

My beloved president is looking at his own lenses, administered our country at his own desire (sure, people's power smoldering for whatever is good) same principles applied by the protagonists/antagonist character from Fyodor's. They're both acting like God. 'Louse' creatures remain like that and should be annihilated from growing hostile, but I like Razumihin's principles more than these two cannibal. Looking to another dimension on which killing evils without due process is considered solution by few and I'm one of them. Baffling on it?

I enjoyed reading it, so 5/5.